Bringing the Shovel Down

Name: Bringing the Shovel Down
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ross Gay
ISBN: 9781668644881

Author: Ross Gay

Narrator: Ross Gay

Unabridged: 1 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Hachette Original

Published: 10/08/2024

Categories: Fiction, Poetry, African American & Black Poetry

Synopsis

Bringing the Shovel Down maps the long and arduous process of being inculcated with the mythologies of state and power, the ramifications of that inculcation (largely, the loss of our humanity in the service of maintaining those mythologies), and finally, what it might mean, what it might provide us, if we were to transform those myths. The book, finally, has one underlying question: How might we better love one another?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonterri

It feels like I read this book very quickly even though I read most of the poems at least 3 times. Not because that's my way of doing things (it's not), but because when I reached the end of many of the poems I would scream out "WHAT!" as in "what did I just read?!" and go back to feel it all again.......more

Goodreads review by Superstition

Ross Gay’s poetry collection, Bringing the Shovel Down, is splendidly powerful. He juxtaposes beautiful experiences alongside terrifying ones. He intertwines love and hate. He creates characters in a few lines who would otherwise require a whole novel. He transports us into the minds of characters s......more

Goodreads review by esther

good shit......more